# zenit
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [zəˈnit]
* IPA: (Valencia) [zeˈnit]
* Rhymes: -it

### Noun

zenit m (plural zenits)
* zenith

### Further reading

* “zenit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “zenit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “zenit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “zenit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

### Noun

zenit
* zenith

#### Declension
### References

* “zenit”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zenit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzɛnɪt]

### Noun

zenit m inan
* zenith
    Synonym: nadhlavník

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “zenit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “zenit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cenit (see further there).

### Noun

zenit
* (uncountable) zenith

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cenit, from Old Spanish [Term?], from Arabic سَمْت (samt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzeːnɪt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ze‧nit

### Noun

zenit n (uncountable)
* (astronomy) zenith

#### Related terms

* azimut

### Anagrams

* inzet, zet in

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Zenit, from Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzɛnit]
* Hyphenation: ze‧nit
* Rhymes: -it
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### Noun

zenit (plural zenitek)
* (astronomy) zenith (point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir)
* (figuratively) zenith (highest point or state; peak)
    Synonyms: csúcspont, tetőpont

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* zenit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Noun

zenit (plural zenit-zenit)
* zenith

## Italian
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin cenit, a transliteration of Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”) which is in itself a weak abbreviation of سَمْت الرَأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈd͡zɛ.nit/
* Rhymes: -ɛnit
* Hyphenation: zè‧nit

### Noun

zenit m
* (astronomy) zenith

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish zenit, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt), from Aramaic סֵימִטָא (sēmiṭā) from Latin sēmĭta, from Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé + *mey- + *-tós.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɛ.ɲit/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɲit
* Syllabification: ze‧nit

### Noun

zenit m inan
* (astronomy) zenith (point vertically above a position or observer)
    Synonym: apogeum
    Antonym: nadir
* (astronomy) zenith (highest point reached by a celestial body)
* zenith (highest point or state; peak)
    Synonyms: maks, maksimum
    Antonym: minimum

#### Derived terms

* zenitalny
* zenitowy
* zenitka
* zenitówka

### Further reading

* zenit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* zenit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French zénith.

### Noun

zenit n (uncountable)
* zenith

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zěniːt/
* Hyphenation: ze‧nit

### Noun

zènīt m (Cyrillic spelling зѐнӣт)
* zenith

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tseˈnit/ [t̪seˈnit̪]
* Rhymes: -it

### Noun

zenit m (plural zenit)
* Alternative spelling of cenit

### Further reading

* “zenit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

zenit n
* (astronomy) zenith